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Chapel of Our Lady of Coignet

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Cappella di notre d… Cappella di notre dame du Coignet - S. Gioberto

Cappella di notre dame du Coignet - S. Gioberto

Cappella di notre d… Cappella di notre dame du Coignet

Cappella di notre dame du Coignet

Cappella di notre d… Cappella di notre dame du Coignet

Cappella di notre dame du Coignet

Cappella di notre d… Cappella di notre dame du Coignet

Cappella di notre dame du Coignet

Cappella di notre d… Cappella di notre dame du Coignet

Cappella di notre dame du Coignet

Fraz. Les Arnauds - loc. Pian del Sole - Bardonecchia, 10052 Bardonecchia

Built before 1496 and expanded at the beginning of the 16th century, the Coignet chapel is located in the locality of Pian del Sole, on a panoramic knoll overlooking the hamlets of Les Arnauds and Melezet in Bardonecchia.
It preserves frescoes on the facade and inside, created by three different fresco painters between the end of the 15th century and the third decade of the 16th century. Externally, on the facade, there are an Annunciation, a large Saint Christopher, and a saint identified with Saint Anthony the Abbot or Saint Jerome, attributed by critics to an anonymous fresco painter active around the third decade of the 16th century at the chapel of Horres in Millaures and at that of St. Sebastian in Plampinet.

The internal frescoes were instead created in 1496, commissioned by a certain Jean Guy, by a painter probably linked to the workshop of the Serra family from Pinerolo but endowed with an autonomous personality, also active at the chapel of Saint Andrew in Ramats in Chiomonte, the chapel of the Annunciation of Oulme in Salbertrand, and in the parish church of Rochemolles.
This fresco painter is attributed with the scenes on the apse wall, depicting the Pietà, the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth and Saint Gratus, in addition to the scene of the martyrdom of Saint Agatha located on the west wall. He was accompanied by a more modest assistant who, in a contemporary period to his activity, created the scenes dedicated to the Life of the Virgin located on the west and east walls and the figure of the Christ of Sorrows situated in the reveal of the window.

It is accessible through the automated system of Chiese a Porte Aperte.